As this lively, informative multi-author volume shows, Islamists from the beginning argued that Indonesia should be an Islamic state, and they pressed this demand with renewed force after the country's transition to democracy in 1998.(Foreign Affairs) Readers interested in Indonesia from a more comparative perspective might have benefitted from more comparisons from farther afield, but they will gain very useful overviews especially from the first two chapters by Chiara Formichi and Robert Hefner, who skillfully disentangle the complicated landscape of religious and political actors.(The University of British Columbia) Finally, Duncan provides an mportant account of the very real tensions that continue to exist between Christians and Muslims in Maluku and North Maluku.(Sojourn)
